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Louisiana Tech University will be kicking off their UTeachTech program at 11 a.m. Monday at University Hall.

Along with community and corporate partners, Louisiana Tech University will be celebrating the new program as well as celebrating teachers, Don Schillinger, the interim dean of the college of education, said.

Something that started with a simple question more than three years ago will bear fruit next week with the opening of the Union Museum of History and Art. “Celebrating the Waters of Union Parish,” the premier exhibit at the museum, opened Thursday at the museum, located at 116 North Main St. in Farmerville.

Jean Jones, who chairs the board that oversees the museum, said the subject of the museum’s first exhibit was one that was an easy conclusion to reach.

Dear EarthTalk: How are the world's reptile species faring in terms of population numbers and endangered status? What's being done, if anything, to help them?

— Vicky Desmond, Troy, NY

The world’s reptiles — turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators and crocodiles — are indeed in trouble. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which publishes an annual global roster of threatened and endangered species called the Red List, considers some 664 species of reptiles — representing more than 20 percent of known reptile species worldwide — as endangered or facing extinction. Meanwhile, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service considers about 10 percent of American reptiles threatened or endangered.

When Susan Crowson was out in her yard Tuesday afternoon, she had no idea why a deputy from the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office was pulling into her driveway.

That has been the thought of many parish residents over the past week and a half as deputies from Sheriff Mike Stone and the LPSO’s new Concentrated Area Patrol group have been cruising around handing out surveys and asking area residents their opinion on the sheriff’s office and the job they are doing.